You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMANI’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
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I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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